Tresco
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Tresco, UK, is the second largest island of the Isles of Scilly. It offers an astonishing variety of scenery, from the rugged granite outcrops and heathland of the wild north coast to the magnificent shell-strewn beaches in the east and south. The variety of its scenery and geomorphology is in part down to the effects of the last ice age, when the Devensian ice sheet clipped the north side of the island leaving deformation till deposits.
There are the ruins of two ancient castles to the north of New Grimsby harbour. In the centre of the island are cottages and farmland, a shop and sub-post office, the New Inn and the Island Hotel, an art gallery and the famous sub-tropical Abbey Gardens. The entire island of Tresco belongs to The Duchy of Cornwall and is leased to the Dorrien-Smith estate.
Since 2001, the island has hosted a marathon run organised in aid of Cystic Fybrosis. The course consists of 7.5 laps around the island. The event is always held on the same day as the London marathon.
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References
Van Der Meer, Menzies & Rose, 2003, Subglacial till: the deforming glacier bed, In: Quaternary Science Reviews Vol 22, pp 1659-1685.